Tech Industry

ShareChat, an Indian social network that focuses entirely on serving users in non-English languages, said on Thursday it has raised $40 million from a clutch of investors after the Indian startup added tens of millions of new users in…
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Intel has received licences from U.S. authorities to continue supplying certain products to Huawei, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday. With U.S.-China ties at their worst in decades, the Trump administration has been pushing…
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Quibi is exploring a possible sale among several options under review with advisers, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. The company is also thinking about raising more money after its initial $1.8…
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ESB Telecoms and Siro have partnered to install high-speed ethernet services for Irish operators in 13 urban centres. Under a new agreement, Irish telecoms operators will be able to access ethernet infrastructure with bandwidth speeds of…
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According to a recent report by Business Insider, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram is building an API (application programming interface) that will help companies, entrepreneurs, and huge brands access their messages through…
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TikTok is not the only Chinese app to have been saved from a ban at the last minute this weekend: WeChat won’t be banned from app stores tomorrow either. A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from forcing either Apple…
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Google is bringing back human moderators to oversee YouTube content, taking over from automated systems that were given more responsibilities at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. YouTube revealed in late August that in the three months…
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The government on Saturday delayed a plan to prohibit downloads of TikTok, the popular video-sharing app. The ban was to go into effect today, but the order has been delayed until Sept. 27 at 11:59 p.m. local time, the Treasury Department…
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TikTok asked a federal judge in Washington to block the Trump administration from enacting a ban on the fast-growing social-media network. TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance Ltd., filed a complaint late Friday night challenging the…
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Not long after the Trump administration announced popular video app TikTok would be banned from app stores starting Sunday, creators and users took to the platform to say their goodbyes — but also voice their dissent. Many made jokes about…
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